Dan McCrum is multi-award winning journalist and author. In 15 years at the Financial Times he has covered business and finance from New York and London, helping to uncover fraudulent accounting at several listed companies. He is currently a member of the investigations team, and his reporting on Wirecard was recognised with more than a dozen awards and prizes, including journalist of the year at the 2020 British Press Awards. Dan got a taste for newsprint as a paperboy in his family’s newsagent. Before becoming a journalist he tried his hand at painting and decorating, selling cook books door-to-door, and learned a thing or two about finance in the research department of an investment bank. He lives with his family in St Albans.

Tom Brakke, CFA is principal of The Investment Ecosystem, which provides consulting, training, and content for investment professionals and organizations.  Tom has analyzed and worked with a wide variety of industry organizations, including asset managers, asset owners (pension plans, endowments, foundations, family offices, etc.), consultants, investment advisory firms, and research organizations.  One area of focus is evaluating due diligence and manager selection practices.

Mary Childs (she/her) is a host of Planet Money, NPR’s economics podcast, and the author of the bestselling book, The Bond King: How One Man Made a Market, Built an Empire, and Lost It All. Previously, she was a reporter for Barron's magazine, the Financial Times, and Bloomberg News. She was also a Watson Fellow, spending a year traveling and painting portraits. She graduated from W&L with a degree in business journalism and an honors thesis comparing the use and significance of media sting operations in the U.S. and India.